Lyrics Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson

Blue Flame

I've got some walls around me too

But they're not much compared to your house

Fifty feet high with barbed wire

Guards on the top

Aiming rifles at your lovers one by one

And friends too

I've come with hands above my head

But I'm damned if I'll try to break your door down

If you ever come out, just call me

I'll still be armed

With the memory of one evening when you smiled

At something

Sadness spreads like a black stain

But I know by now

That's not all there is

There's a blue flame inside of you

So beautiful and rare

Love's not something we decide to do

You'd be so hard to love

If love was not just...

There

You tell me women get you down

And as for men, well they're all bastards

I wonder what world you call home

And I wish I could learn their language

Just enough to make you laugh

Just one time

Yes it was nice to see you too

Although I'm never sure you mean it

I'll pick up the tab, and you won't thank me

Not that I mind

But in my dreams it's all so different, we even kiss

Imagine this

Bitterness is a black hole

Don't you know by now

You've got more to give

There's a blue flame inside of you

So beautiful and rare

Love's not something we decide to do

You'd be so hard to love

If love was not just...

There

Impossible to love

If love was not

For some strange reason

There